LOSE YOURSELF IN THE BREAKOUT SENSATION OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019‘Brilliant' Joanna Cannon‘Spellbinding' Guardian‘Magic' Erin Kelly‘Immersive' Sunday Times‘Gorgeous' Stella Duffy‘Astounding' Anna Mazzola Imagine you could erase your grief.Imagine you could forget your pain.Imagine you could hide a secret.Forever.Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives summoning him to begin an apprenticeship. He will work for a Bookbinder, a vocation that arouses fear, superstition and prejudice – but one neither he nor his parents can afford to refuse.He will learn to hand-craft beautiful volumes, and within each he will capture something unique and extraordinary: a memory. If there's something you want to forget, he can help. If there's something you need to erase, he can assist. Your past will be stored safely in a book and you will never remember your secret, however terrible.In a vault under his mentor's workshop, row upon row of books – and memories – are meticulously stored and recorded.Then one day Emmett makes an astonishing discovery: one of them has his name on it.THE BINDING is an unforgettable, magical novel: a boundary-defying love story and a unique literary event.
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This one one of the most captivating and heartbreaking books I have ever read. Entirely original in its conception, The Binding takes us to a world where the act of creating a book can rewrite history - or erase it. Emmet is an apprentice binder, learning the magic of capturing a history within the enchanted pages of a book, but it is his own past that will come to torment him as he starts to find gaps in his memory, and the arrival of a mysterious boy will thrust him into a dark adventure of love and heartbreak that will send shivers down any reader's spine. - Rebecca (QBD)
Guest, 22/03/2021
